Bivouacs

The book makes an attempt to generalize the experience of organizing and equipping bivouacs. It tells about the choice of their place in summer and winter in different regions and climatic conditions, about spending the night without tents in winter and summer on the plain and in the mountains. Various types of fires, fire equipment, designs, installation and equipment of tents, sleeping bags, kerosene stoves, and autoclaves are described. Place is given to safety in bivouacs.

The book reflects the experience of the author, a master of sports in tourism, as well as the experience of his fellow hikers; The literature used is listed at the end. This book can therefore be considered a review book. It is intended for a wide range of nature and tourism lovers.

The author dedicates the book to the memory of ALEXANDER HANANOVICH SINELNIKOV, a tourism instructor and leader of hikes at the Moscow City Central Tourist Club.

Content:

TWO WORDS TO THE READER
1. Organization of parking
2. Installation and equipment of tents
3. Overnight without a tent
4. Bonfires
5. Protection from midges and insects. Safety. Removing the camp
6. Campfire
7. Tents
8. Sleeping bags
9. Stoves
10. Tourist Primus
11. Autoclaves
Literature
EDITOR'S AFTERWORD

Moscow 1995 G.Ya.Ryzhavsky. BIVACKS. - M.: TsDYuT, 1995. - 112 p., illus.

Editor I.V. Loskutnikov Technical editor D.A. Evceea Artist O. Yu. Shmyglevskaya

License LR No. 020938

Delivered in set 1.95. Signed for printing 5.95. Format 60x90/16. Times typeface. Offset printing. Conditional p.l. 7.

Publishing house of the Center for Children and Youth Tourism of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. 109033, Moscow, Volochaevskaya, 38A.

Printed at the Research Institute of Geodesy, Krasnoarmeysk

Scanning and processing of the book - Mike, KTMZ